The northeast Nigeria's Borno state is to set up skills
acquisition centers in six Local Government Areas (LGAs) liberated from the
Boko Haram terrorists, an official said Sunday.
Babagana Umara, the Commissioner in charge of
Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement, disclosed this at the
graduation of 18 women trained in tailoring in an Internally Displaced Persons
(IDPs) camp in Wulari of Maiduguri, the state capital.
The commissioner said the centers are meant to empower the
IDPs, especially women with different vocational trade. The training include,
carpentry, welding, tailoring, wheel alignment and others.
Umara said the trainees were given monthly allowances and
daily feeding during the training program, which was in partnership with the
United Nation Development Program (UNDP).
The Boko Haram insurgency has killed more than
15,000 people since 2009 and forced some two million to flee their homes.
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